1898

Marie Louise Bartlett Chandler, wife of our classmate, James R. Chandler and sister of our late President, Joseph W. Bartlett, passed away on April 12 after a long illness. To our beloved classmate and Class Agent, "Buck" and his fine family, goes the heartfelt sympathy of the entire Class.

Constance B. Odquist (Goucher), daughter of Maurice V. and Viola B. Odquist, and granddaughter of Gertrude and "Ike" Seelman, was married to Robert C. Wilkinson (Princeton) on April 6 at New York City. Reception was held at the Ardsley Club, Irvington, N. Y., on April 21.

When Sherman Roberts Moulton died in June 1949 he was the Chief Justice of the highest court of Vermont. Under a judicial reserve there beat a heart loyal to '98 and the College. From Sherm's son, Horace P. '28, vice president and general counsel of the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., comes this welcome response. "It was a real pleasure to receive your letter. Dad had spoken to me many times of you and I remember meeting you and other members of the class at your 30th reunion in 1928 when I graduated. Mother is fine. She is living in an apartment in Burlington and pursuing a very active and happy life. She drives her own car and has regular rounds of bridge parties, club meetings, etc. We talk to her frequently. She flies from Burlington to New York each Christmas to be with us and we see her in Burlington in the summer. I only hope that I have as much energy and as many interests as she when I get past eighty.

"As for my family we have lived in Staten Island for the past eleven years. I am engaged as a lawyer by A.T.&T. Co. and find my work both challenging and plentiful. My wife, Gretta, is active in Girl Scouting and in many other worthy endeavors. At the moment she is working diligently in preparation for the Girl Scout Roundup, a triennial affair which will be held for two weeks this summer in my native Vermont on the shores of Lake Champlain and will be attended by more than ten thousand girls. My son Sherman Roberts II, who is 25, is married and living near us. Through him, we are the proud possessors of two lovely granddaughters. My daughter, Anne, who is 22, is in her senior year in the Liberal Arts College at Cornell.

"Thank you very much indeed for suggesting that mother and I might come to your 65th reunion next year. It is, of course, too early to make very definite plans, but we will try. I only wish that Dad were here to come with us. No one ever had a better father."

Here is a saga of Dartmouth: a mine of newly discovered riches: to gladden the heart of '98. "My mother, Mrs. Edwin Buell, sent me your recent letter and asked me to answer for her. You requested information about her and her family - I hardly know how much you would like. My father, after he left Dartmouth and was married to my mother, Cornelia Ball, attended law school at night and was a clerk in the Federal Court in Chicago by day. He took his law degree, but never became a practicing attorney. Instead he was a very successful receiver in bankruptcy in the federal courts. In 1909 they moved from Chicago to the north shore suburb of Glencoe. There were two daughters - myself, Virginia - and my younger sister, Mary Louise. I attended Bradford Junior College, Class of 1922, and then transferred to the Univ. of Chicago taking my degree there with honors in History of Art. The same June I married J. Dudley Pope who had graduated from Dartmouth in 1923, Phi Beta Kappa and Phi Delta Theta. He is vice president of the A. C. Nielsen Co. (marketing research) and we still live in my home town of Glencoe, Ill. We have two daughters also - Louise who went a short time to the U. of New Mexico and married an electrical engineer from Purdue, Wm. P. Hayes. They live in Glenview near here and have two girls and a brand new son. Our other daughter, Virginia, married into the Dartmouth family again - Vernon Brooks Jr. of White Plains, N. Y. She attended Mt. Holyoke for two years. Vern's career at Dartmouth was interrupted by the war, but he finished there later and is now working for Socony in N. Y. They have two boys and a girl.

"My sister, Mary Louise, took her degree at Smith, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. She married William G. Todd, a Beta from Nebraska, and they live in Lake Forest, Ill. They have two daughters - Shirley, who took her degree at Michigan and taught school in Hawaii one year while her husband, Gilbert Hitchcock, also of U. of Michigan, was doing his service stint. They have one son - and Lynn Todd, who is currently a sophomore at Western College for Women, Oxford, Ohio.

"My mother lives in an attractive house on a lovely lake in Winter Park, Fla. In the summer she comes to Chicago and divides her time between my sister and me. I know she would love to have any of the Dartmouth '98ers drop in to see her in Florida as I notice that many of you go down there. My father died in December of 1936 of complications brought on by hypertension. He was always such a big, rugged, athletic man that it was a shock to us.

"When my husband and I went back to Hanover for his 25th, it was the same year that '98 had its 50th. When I discovered that, I went over and introduced myself to those of you who were there. It was a rare privilege for me, and meant a great deal more to me than attending our 25th. We have not been back since, but, when we do, I hope to find '98 there too! One of these days we hope to have a grandson at Han- over - if it should be one of the boys in White Plains, he would have a Dartmouth father, a Dartmouth grandfather and two Dartmouth great-grandfathers - (I forgot to say that my husband also had a Dartmouth father - John Dudley Pope, class of 1882). We all send our best wishes and greetings to you and all of '98. Through old pictures and old stories, I feel almost a part of it."

Secretary 50 Court St., Brooklyn 1, N. Y.